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Date:      Fri, 29 Jul 2005 12:37:06 +0200
From:      Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz>
To:        Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New port with maintainer ports@FreeBSD.org [was: Question about maintainers]
Message-ID:  <20050729103706.GB73490@isis.sigpipe.cz>
In-Reply-To: <20050728233334.GF1186@k7.mavetju>
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# edwin@mavetju.org / 2005-07-29 09:33:34 +1000:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:41:11PM +0200, Roman Neuhauser wrote:
> >     Or, I'll accept the fact that my address must appear in MAINTAINER
> >     before you accept results of my work, but will ignore any and all
> >     PRs coming my way: I don't use the software in question enough to
> >     be a good maintainer, so I better don't waste my time.  In the
> >     meantime, PRs for ports I have been sentenced to "maintain" hang
> >     in GNATS, and later the MAINTAINER either gets reset, or the port
> >     suffers from perpetual maintainer timeouts.
> 
> If you're going to play silly games, expect to be played silly games
> with.
> 
> Or in other words, people will start to actively ignore your new
> ports based on their experience with your current ports.

    Yup, and I don't want to do that.
    
    I can occasionaly spend a week or two working on a port
    (http://cvs.sf.net/viewcvs.py/gri/gri/doc/gri.texi?r1=1.187&r2=1.188&diff_format=u)
    but if I cannot promise to be a good maintainer for it for various
    reasons, I shouldn't be forced to.

    Of course, you can tell me to take it or leave it, but is that an
    improvement?

-- 
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You don't know, man.  You don't KNOW.
Cause you weren't THERE.             http://bash.org/?255991



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